Keyboard shortcuts

The gestures you repeat while writing — saving, undoing, asking for a suggestion, opening the dictionary — are quicker from the keyboard, and your hands stay on the text. This page lists every keyboard shortcut of the Ilena editor, as it appears on a Mac; each one was tried in the editor.

The list in IlenaThe list in Ilena

Inside Ilena, Help → Keyboard Shortcuts shows the same list, without the three text styles, and Esc closes it. Keys on Windows and Linux are not described here.

The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog, listing the Work, Edit and Tools shortcuts with their keys, and the start of Suggestions.
Help → Keyboard Shortcuts, inside Ilena.

WorkWork

Work shortcuts
KeysAction
+ + WClose work. If the work has unsaved changes, Unsaved changes asks what to do with them.
+ SSave work
+ EExport as PDF: the file downloads under the name of the work.
+ + HHistory: opens the version history of the work.

These act on the open work.

EditEdit

Edit shortcuts
KeysAction
+ ZUndo
+ + ZRedo
+ XCut
+ CCopy
+ VPaste
Delete the selected text
+ ASelect all the text of the work

Editing shortcuts (undo, cut, copy, paste…) require focus in the editor.

Text stylesText styles

Text styles shortcuts
KeysAction
+ BBold
+ IItalic
+ UUnderline

These three apply to the selected text. They are not in the in-app list.

ToolsTools

Tools shortcuts
KeysAction
+ OOpen the Workspace drawer
+ DOpen the Dictionary drawer

Pressed again, each shortcut closes its drawer. Opening one drawer closes the other.

SuggestionsSuggestions

Suggestions shortcuts
KeysAction
Ctrl + SpaceShow suggestions (manual inspiration). This is the Control key, on a Mac too.
TabAccept a suggestion: the grey continuation, or the highlighted ending in the list
EscDismiss the suggestions

EscapeEscape

Esc closes the dialog in front of you, the right-click menu, the suggestion list and the version history. It leaves the Workspace, Dictionary and Ideas basket drawers open.